#$%^$%* (gas prices)--HI-Way-Robbery

[Fairlaner]

Price has gone up here over the past week too. Filled up last night for 2.86 $/gal.

you should try the prices where i am right now.

97p a litre, 5 litres to the gallon and 2dollars to the pound = almost $10 a gallon OUCH

R

 

[madmike2]

Interesting read on European gas prices Clicky

I hope everyone opens the link and reads that article. An interesting snippet:

On average, 60 percent of the price European drivers pay at the pump goes to their governments in taxes.In Britain, the government takes 75 percent, and raises taxes by 5 percent above inflation every year....<snippage> On August 8, for example, the price of gas in the US, without taxes, would be $2.17, instead of $2.56; in Britain, it would be $1.97, instead of $6.06.

"There is really good evidence that higher prices reduce traffic," says Stephen Glaister, a professor of transportation at London's Imperial College......<snippage>It does change people's behavior."

The US authorities, however, "are unwilling to use resource price as part of their strategy" to conserve oil, says Lee Schipper, head of transportation research at the Washington-based World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank.

Probably coming to a state or country near you.

"Ve haff vays to kontrol ze habits vitch you refuze to zubmit to us. Ve arr za government und ve noe vhat ist ze best for you. You vill do as ve say, und you vill like it! Und tenk yew for paying zeeze taxes und buying for us ze bigger cars und gazoline vitch ve deserve because ve arr uber-shmarter und moor dezerving zen you." signed: Shtirrenuppenmeister

 

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[FuzzyRider]

you should try the prices where i am right now.97p a litre, 5 litres to the gallon and 2dollars to the pound = almost $10 a gallon OUCH

R

??? :unknw: I have to wonder about your math.

4.5 liters per Imperial gallon...and we don't even use Imperial gallons. It's 3.8 liters per US gallon. That makes your fuel ~7.37 dollars a gallon. That's still sucks, but it might be some consolation it's better than $10 per gallon.